Serious Eats
Latin Names Useful in Food Shopping
Did you pay attention in biology when the teacher covered taxonomy? I hope at least as much attention as Ms. Chicken in Every Granny Cart. It comes in handy.
Case in point? Escolar, aka Snake Mackerel , aka Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, which is sometimes passed off as Chilean Sea Bass (another misnomer as they aren’t even bass), aka Patagonian Tooth Fish, aka Dissostichus eleginoides and I believe also Butterfish of which there are three kinds, Alaskan (Anoplopoma fimbria), American (Peprilus triacanthus) and Pacific (Peprilus simillimus), but may actually be a kind of Oil Fish (Ruvettus pretiosus).
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